Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a restful holiday break.
As mentioned in my December post the lists are coming out. Today I have the 2013 list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for K-12 link
http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/ostb2013.aspx
So what books do you own? Unfortunately I don't own many though I do have quite a selections from Nic Bishop and Steve Jenkins. Two great authors in the science field.
I do want to point out one that I just added to my Follett list. It happens to be the second to the last so you may not make it that far down.
What Color Is My World? : The Lost History of African-American Inventors by
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld. Candlewick Press. Quoted from the list
"Integrated with technology, engineering and social studies, this book highlights unknown inventors. Useful for Invention units and STEM curricula. The variety of inventors and inventions will be appreciated."
With Black History Month approaching this may be one to buy quickly.
Next month I have scheduled an in-service for my teacher's on science materials in the library. Thanks to two grants I won this year I have expanded our Folkmanis puppet collection and will be getting a slew of Smithsonian Backyard books to pair with the matching puppets. Another grant has purchased the AV2 Science Books that are on the K-2 level. I can't wait to share with them all of the great science related tools that I can offer them!
